User:Soulflare

Archiving with Hyper-V on Windows 10 Pro

This is not meant to be a professional guide, just the steps I took to get it running

Prerequisites:

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  Windows Features: Hyper-V

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  Windows Features: Windows Subsystem for Linux

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  Ubuntu 18.04 LTS on the Microsoft Store

1. Install the prerequisites
2. You will also need 7-zip. You can use this in Linux or Windows. I used the GUI on Windows.
3. Download the appliance
4. Open the appliance file with 7-Zip and extract the files to your Download folder (or you can move it somewhere else, just don't lose it).
5. You will need the tool qemu-img located in the package qemu-utils, I used Ubuntu to run the tool, using the Windows Subsystem for Linux. You can download Ubuntu on the Microsoft Store after installing the Windows Subsystem for Linux. In the Microsoft Store, hit "Launch" and it will download Ubuntu
6. Type Bash in a run window (Win+R or open Task Manager and go to File>Run)
7. Update your repositories sudo apt update
8. Install qemu-utils with sudo apt install qemu-utils
9. Bash will start you in the home directory for your Linux user. Most likely, this is not where you downloaded the appliance. Your current directory will be ~ or /home/<yourname>. To get to your Windows drives, we need to change directories. cd /mnt will move you to the folder with all of your partitions. Most of the time your download folder will be on your C: drive. Mine is on L:. From here you can cd c/Users/<yourname>/Downloads. In my case it was cd l/Downloads.
10. The command I used to convert the .vmdk to a .vhdx was qemu-img convert archiveteam-warrior-v3-20171013-disk001.vmdk -O vhdx -o subformat=dynamic archiveteam-warrior-v3-20171013.vhdx
11. Now we have archiveteam-warrior-v3-20171013.vhdx which we can use in Hyper-V!